Ah, there’s no riper target than the environmental movement right now.
First Cheryl Crow craps pellets like a rabbit. (Bogus story, it seems.)
Then …
… (the) Voluntary Human Extinction Movement takes things a step further.
Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.
Thanks Rocky.
Rick McCharles 
This story is interesting for its legs, not for its newsworthiness.
First of all, anybody who actually reads her April 19th blog entry (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheryl-crow/laurie-and-sheryl-go-to-s_b_46320.html) will pretty soon come to the conclusion that Sheryl (we’re close) is making a little joke. If it’s not immediately apparent, by the time she mentions her brother’s proposal about “just washing the one square out” it’s going to start dawning on most people, and when she starts talking about designing a new “dining sleeve” that will take the place of disposable napkins, even the most obtuse will understand … it’s a joke.
So how then can Dvorak (and others) take it seriously and slam Sheryl Crow? It’s simple. He read uncritically something some idiot wrote about the blog (instead of reading the actual blog) and made comment on what the idiot said instead of what Sheryl said. In fact, he doesn’t even tell us which idiot he’s actually commenting on. In short, he’s being lazy and now he’s been caught and that’s a pretty good story in itself.
He can take solace, I suppose, in how many other reputable news sources took the same tone. For the CBC version (April 23, four days after the blog entry itself), see http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/04/23/crow.html?ref=rss. And now we see it here, on the McCharles blog. (Well, ok, Rick, you’re forgiven, since you don’t even pretend to be a journalist.) But seriously, is it too much to ask today for a professional journalist to go to the original source instead of just repeating what’s been said about it by somebody else?